Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of the Global Respect Act, including my amendment to ensure accountability for torture. As a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, I am proud to work with my colleagues, Chairman Meeks and…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in honor of the late Commissioner Carolyn Coleman, a loving mother, grandmother, and a remarkable trailblazer for civil rights. She had a lifelong commitment to activism, from her first heroic actions at the…

Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize Melissa Murphy, my chief of staff, who recently moved on to a great opportunity working for Duke Energy of South Carolina. After a decade and a half of service here in our Nation's capital, Melissa…

Madam Speaker, I thank my friend for yielding. Madam Speaker, I had not originally planned to speak on this bill, but I think there are several things that need to be underscored. And before I get into those, let me say we have all had our…

Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague from Kentucky who has done a masterful job, along with Chairwoman Maloney, on this bill. Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 3076, the Postal Service Reform Act. The Postal Service is…

I have long been an advocate for a resilient and diverse banking ecosystem.

Madam Speaker, I rise in support of the continuing resolution before us. I am pleased we came to an agreement, but it is only a stopgap. A bicameral, bipartisan omnibus bill must be passed to fund government for the remainder of fiscal…

We are trying to de-risk, not add risk to the Federal taxpayer.

Given the explosive growth in the stablecoin and cryptocurrency space, it is critical, I believe, that Congress examine how best to establish appropriate guardrails around stablecoins.

I do think we can learn a lot from the State regulatory framework, what they have done well, and the things that we can do better.

Shouldn't we be in the game of de-risking rather than adding to the risk of a Federal bailout or, yes, for these products?

There are no lessons learned from the States included in this report, and I was interested in why that was.

I think we can have some consensus here on how we get ahead, but one area that I think this committee should examine is the current State regulatory frameworks.

I hope that today we can think bigger and more comprehensively and discuss the potential benefits of increased use of stablecoins.

Washington's knee-jerk reaction to regulate out of fear will not allow stablecoins to achieve their full potential.

Currently, there is no Federal law to address digital assets.

By that same notion, you would like to have a single regulator at the Federal level for all financial institutions.

But what I am asking is a separate question. Look, this is not an adversarial conversation.